Too many cooks spoil the Regie

This week it was operalover9001 (so many of you!) who managed to narrow down the repertoire to a handful of titles, of which The Rape of Lucretia turned out to be accurate. After all, how many operas are there that feature Nathan Gunn taking a massage in leather pants? (I said how many are there, not how many should there be!) Keith Warner’s new production at the Theater an der Wien even won kudos from the exacting Likely Impossibilities!